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Lenore Blum will join a panel, "Mothers of Invention: Celebrating Women Innovators," hosted by the Congressional Inventions Caucus on Wednesday, March 22, in Washington, D.C. Blum will speak about Project Olympus and Women@SCS and the roles they play in increasing the participation of women in computer science and entrepreneurship.

Brett Slezak, a teacher in the Allegheny Valley School District and an active member of both the Arts and Bots program and the Fluency Project in the Robotics Institute's CREATE Lab, will receive the 2017 Carnegie

Ran Zhao, a Ph.D. student in the Language Technologies Institute (LTI), has been named Carnegie Mellon University's first Alexa Fund fellow, and CMU is one of the first four universities to be chosen to be part of the Alexa Fund Fellowship.

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) has named two School of Computer Science professors among its award recipients for 2017 and elected a third to its honorary organization.

Andreas Pfenning, assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department, is part of an all-star research team that aims to find new ways to translate genetic findings into new therapies for Alzheimer's disease.

School of Computer Science alumnus Kiran Bhat and former Robotics Institute faculty member Iain Matthews are among 18 winners of this year's Scientific & Technical Achievements Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.